Soft-on-Crime Yields More Crime - Canadian Edition

Is anyone shocked. Blame champagne socialists for Canada's tsunami of violent crime | National Post

Canada is facing a rising tide of violent crime that has recently included a tragic series of random stabbings in major Canadian cities. One thing is clear: the bleeding heart approach to criminality, which has long been championed by Canada’s champagne socialists, is failing to keep communities safe.

Canada's liberals have embraced the same policies that our Blue Cities have. "Bail Reform," decriminalizing drugs, ignoring the homeless, and ignoring crime.

I love statistics.

Statistical evidence of the crime wave is still emerging, but preliminary figures are grim. In the first three weeks of 2023, major crimes in Toronto were up 37.7 per cent compared with the same period last year. Excluding homicide, every category of crime shot up — thefts by 61.2 per cent, assaults by 37.8 per cent, sexual violations by 43.5 per cent and robberies by 40.2 per cent.

There are also stats for Vancouver.

And the drug situation is grim. The "remedies" are not working.

Meanwhile, Health Canada’s answer to rising addictions has been to shun recovery-oriented treatment and embrace the distribution of “safer supply” drugs, a policy that is unsupported by any serious evidence and which only exacerbates drug use.

There is more, on housing and crime, on bail and the disparate impacts that poor neighborhoods face as compared to wealthier areas. Guess where all the homeless encampments are, and the impact those encampments have on crime.

There is also an interesting section on anti-Chinese hate crimes that were sweeping Vancouver, the city's non-response, and the political fallout. That section is definitely worth the time. A bunch of leftist loons claiming there are no hate crimes in the face of crime reports. (Hat tip to Blazing Cat Fur.)